Category: School
DI 2022
We just finished the Destination Imagination (DI) 2022 BC tournament! I was working on the scientific challenge, which wasn’t my first choice but I don’t regret it. My team “Up Close and Personal” made up of Ava, Ariane, Theryn, and last but definitely not least: Teva. We were all roughly equal In participation…
Mmmm Pole
How I felt about my learning People and the Environment Our first project in Humanities this year was People and the Environment. As you may have guessed, I wasn’t very proud of my work on this project. For starters I’m not much of a writer and writing comes quite slowly to me. Recently I’ve improved…
Chemistry stories blog, great title not included.
Our most recent scimatics project was about the formation of compounds. We had to figure out a way to illustrate, in an animation using Bohr models, how the electrons are shared between the different atoms in ionic and covalent bonds. We then made those animations part of a story video that explains the science. This…
Hugh-Manatees
Poetry is haarrrrd; That’s one thing I learned in our most recent humanities project: “Humanities: Manatees” or no “Working with Words“ it’s alliteration not rhyme. The poems in this project took awhile to make, it was an arduous process of guessing words till they sounded good together, sorta like how I write music. Noticed I…
Ever tried to put an event on trial?
We finally got a live exhibition! And luckily (ok it was like a 90% chance) this project WAS my cup of hot chocolate 😉 2. I got to act! 1. It was fun! 4. History!!!!!!!! 3. Swordplay… wait no… Revolutions are fun, especially if they involve defenestration. sadly we got the Haitian revolution which didn’t…
Humanities blog
To be honest our first humanities project, “People and the environment” was not my cup of tea,(I drink hot chocolate) as it was a letter, need I say more?(I’m joking, it was also a lack of interest in the topic, and to have to bug someone about it) My idea for the letter was more…
I made yet another game in scimatics, Micro-space
Our first scimatics project of the year, Game of Exponent Laws, was the third project in scimatics so far featuring game design. I’m starting to sense a pattern here, but I’m not complaining – this is fun! On our first day we had to quickly make a dice game in small groups, I wasn’t entirely…
Prep for being judges for lasers
How can we test the Pythagorean theorem and the Law of Reflection? In our third project for this term, Laser laws, we were to increase our understanding of physics and math. Specifically propertys of light and triangles (though mostly the 90 degree angle ones). We started by brainstorming questions about light, most of them…
Post of (tectonic) death
Driving question: How are thematic and mathematical elements used in game design? Thematic elements are very useful for pinning down a game idea, as well as presenting it to the world. Mathematical elements make your game work, without them, most games wouldn’t work. Curricular Competencies: Evaluating: how can I demonstrate an understanding and…